From hadesofspades·3 on YouTube, via matrixsynth, where you can find an additional video.
“What Apocalypse? Silly Mayans.
Here’s another performance on my Korg EMX1SD, Kaossilator Pro and Kaoss pad Quad. This time the Kpro has some reverb applied to it on my Behringer NOX606 mixer (not in frame), which I think sounds outstanding!
Once again, a couple of minor mistakes here and there, but I’m happy
with it!More music to come!
Thanks for listening and liking ;)”
Today we look back at my latest performance with Pitta of the Mind at the Luggage Store Gallery in San Francisco, a show that also featured a set by the Mezzacappa-Phillips duo.
Pitta of the Mind is my music-and-poetry duo with poet Maw Shein Win. It was our fourth performance as a duo, and probably our most polished to date. As with our previous performance at last year’s Skronkathon, we selected a color as the overarching theme for the set. That time it was silver, this time it was blue, which was reflected in our costumes, props (including a little blue tree), and the content of some of the poems. The selections were a bit darker and melancholy than at the Skronkathon, and overall the set had a more serious feel. There were, however, humorous moments in both words and interpretive dance moves from Maw. For the music behind the poems, I used a variety of iPad apps including Sunrizer, Animoog and Bebot. The challenge was to provide sound that fit with the poems without overpowering them.
[Maw Shein Win. Photo: PeterBKaars.com.]
After the main course of our poetry-and-music set, I played a solo improvisation on the analog modular system as dessert.
A subpatch with the E350 Morphing Terrarium from Synthesis Technology, the Make Noise Maths, and the KOMA Eletronik SVF-201 filter formed the foundation, with other modules patched in and out during the course of the performance. I was aiming for noisy rhythmic patterns, and sometimes succeed, while at other times allowed the sound to move in the direction of longer drones or unstable chaos.
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The set was well received by the small but appreciated audience, and we got quite a few positive comments for both words, music and our coordinated blue outfits.
Lisa Mezzacappa and Noah Phillips opened with with a set of improvised music for upright base and guitar, respectively. Both are virtuosic improvisers, and I expected good things from their set. They explored a wide variety of extended techniques, some percussive and some more drone-like, and moving freely between more structured and free-form rhythms. Overall, the timbres, harmonies and textures were quite beautiful and visually evocative.
[Noah Phillips and Lisa Mezzacappa. Photo: PeterBKaars.com.]
Interestingly, this was not the first time we shared the bill with the Mezzacappa-Phillips duo. We were all together at a show in Oakland in 2011. I’m glad we had the change to perform together again.
By musicalgeometry on flickr.
This cat has quite the collection in this Eurorack modular system. I see several modules that I have as well, including the Make Noise Maths, and 4ms Pingable Envlope Generator. I also have the outboard version of the Kenton MIDI->CV converter.
That is one patient cat! How would your cats react to this?
Via matrixsynth, where you can see additional videos. The Makey Makey is actually a board that maps any electrical signals into standard keyboard events.
From @muffwiggler who manned the Tiptop Audio booth this year. http://tiptopaudio.com
Via matrixsynth.
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Submitted by Serena Toxicat via Facebook.
OK, this may in fact be a train control console, but it’s interesting how much it looks like a synth or MIDI controller. It would be interesting to retrofit one of these to be a musical instrument.
To mark this occasion, we thought we would share some superb owls.
[By Peter Trimming from Croydon, England (‘Tutoke’Uploaded by snowmanradio) [CC-BY-2.0], via Wikimedia Commons]
[By GalliasM (Own work) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons[]
And we even found an “Owl Synth Pic” 🙂
[From Mike Peakcock2005 from flickr.]
And finally, check out this review of a performance by Tiny Owl.
Earlier this week, we had rehearsals at CatSynth HQ for my Thursday-night performance as the poetry-and-music duo “Pitta of the Mind.” And Luna was on hand to supervise and support.
Her annoyed expression has more to do with the camera flash than anything else. She was very curious and hung out with us during the rehearsal, which was great to see as she is usually quite shy. And of course, she is quite used to the strange sounds from the iPad and modular synth.
The show itself was great, and will be the topic of a separate post in the near future.
The Carnival of the Cats will be hosted this Sunday by Samantha, Clementine and Maverick.
And the Friday Ark is at the modulator.
Submitted by Aais Plex via our Facebook page.
“Mimine ‘the drummer’ taking a short nap on her favourite spot: the Axiom 25 keyboard. Favourite instrument: the TR-909 drumkit”
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